RSC Publishing


Publishing

 

Cover image for Chemical Communications, select for current issue

Chemical Communications

Urgent high quality communications from across the chemical sciences.



Subscribers

Non-subscribers

Free access



Communication

Chem. Commun., 2009, 6219 - 6221, DOI: 10.1039/b916742k

Homochiral, helical metal–organic framework structures organized by strong, non-covalent – stacking interactions

Daniel L. Reger, Jacob Horger, Mark D. Smith and Gary J. Long

A new trifunctional ligand, Lala, containing a carboxylate donor group, a homochiral center derived from L-alanine and a strong – stacking, 1,8-naphthalimide synthon, has been used to prepare the copper(II) complex [Cu( Lala)2(4,4-bipy)(H2O)2]·4.25H2O that has a homochiral, helical, supramolecular metal–organic framework 3-D structure, organized in one dimension solely by strong non-covalent forces.

Graphical abstract image for this article (ID: b916742k)